98 The Botanical Gazette. {February, 
plants in addition to those now growing on the grounds have bee 
placed in a temporary nursery, and a gift of $5,000 worth of plant 
from Mr. James A. Pitcher is available at any time. 
RAMIE, THE FIBER derived from Boehmeria, is the material of the 
ancients, which has been called linen and cotton by translaton, 
according to Mr. C. O. Boring, who writes in the Dry Goods Bulletin 
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Pharmaceutical Review, and is hereafter to be published chiefly” 
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most direct interest and we cordially commend it to our readers: 
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recorded in our agrostological works.—T. H. 
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